Question: What determines whether the taste of the material illusion will be bitter or sweet? Can you control it?

Answer: It can be controlled only by recognizing that it comes from above, from the Creator, and therefore any bitterness becomes sweetness.

Although in reality, there is nothing sweet in the universe at all. It is evil, it is absolute bitterness, absolute salt, pepper, acid. However, when you start relating these sensations to the Creator, they become imbued with sweetness.

The same bitter, salty, sour, and other similar states become imbued with the sweetness of the Creator and become amazingly tasty! There is no other sweetness like that.

The sweetness of the upper world consists of two opposites that mutually complement each other. It is like in our world: let’s say, there is something sweet and sour. For example, brandy or vodka is added to chocolate. Without it, it is impossible, it will not work. There must be something like that or you will not feel the taste.

Question: Or the sweetness from receiving the Oscar award or the Nobel Prize in our world?

Answer: No, those are completely different types of sweetness that are added because people suffer. After all, they still invest effort.

Remark: Indeed, when I was receiving the Israeli Oscar, I took the statuette in my hands and I felt that all my pleasure was leaving. Going away. It was like I had never had desire for anything. One moment, and it all faded.

My Comment: Sic transit gloria mundi! “Thus passes the glory of the world!”
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/20/19

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Question: How are the nine months of intrauterine human development connected to the development of the soul?

Answer: Absolutely clearly. If you take The Study of the Ten Sefirot, it’s 10th part is called “Embryo” and the 11th part, “Suckling.” It speaks not about the human being, but about the soul that originates in the spiritual system called “Father and Mather.” And what occurs in our world is a copy of the spiritual birth.

It is very interesting to read about this because it is described clearly there, in more powerful details than what we know from our life. The science of Kabbalah talks about things that we are not able to discover in our world.

We know how a person is conceived, how he is born, how a fetus develops, but we do not understand the internal processes. We do not understand the essence, the source of why it is arranged this way and not otherwise. What is in a woman is a very interesting system, similar to the Creator.

Remark: It is interesting that Kabbalists wrote about it 3,500 years ago.

My Comment: They wrote it from the attainment of the upper system. Therefore, they explained how a fetus develops, for how long: seven, nine, or 12 months. There were instances when women gave birth even at 12 months.

Kabbalists wrote how to give birth, how and under what conditions, how a person should develop when he is born, that a period of suckling is possible up to two years of age, how a woman should behave after giving birth to recover faster, etc. These books contain an enormous amount of information. It is worth studying this science.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 12/30/18

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New Life 58 – The Solution To All Threats
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

The wisdom of Kabbalah explains how the upper force sends all threats in order to lead us to its discovery and elevate us to another level of existence. Today, both physical and spiritual life and death depend on the revelation of the wisdom of Kabbalah to all of humanity. Everything takes place according to the plan of nature, the unified system, which we are born into. We are the conduits for the revelation of the upper force in the world, the light unto the nations.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 58 – The Solution To All Threats,” 8/13/12

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Faith above reason can only be in the place of contradiction of the Upper governance. I have to accept everything as the highest good, despite my feelings or understanding! And this contradiction remains, otherwise there will be no difference between man and the Creator, and man will no longer feel himself or attain the Creator.

The warm and vibrant nature of Latin America never slowed down as we dined, sang and danced together. I can only praise all the students and give them douze points for unity!

Together we learned how to connect above our differences, and the connection was felt everywhere. Many more students and friends from around the world connected virtually, and the density of connected hearts was so powerful that it became truly spiritual.

Over the weekend, while Israel and European countries were glued to the #Eurovision contest, I was on the other side of the globe—in Monterrey, Mexico. My students and friends from all over the Latin continent gathered in this special region for the World #Kabbalah #Convention.

From Twitter, 5/19/19

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From My Facebook Page Michael Laitman 5/19/19

Over the weekend, while Israel and European countries were glued to the Eurovision contest, I was on the other side of the globe – in Monterrey, Mexico. My students and friends from all over the Latin continent gathered in this special region for the World Kabbalah Convention.

Together we learned how to connect above our differences, and the connection was felt everywhere. Many more students and friends from around the world connected virtually, and the density of connected hearts was so powerful that it became truly spiritual. The warm and vibrant nature of Latin America never slowed down as we dined, sang and danced together. I can only praise all the students and give them douze points for unity!

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Question: What states, earthly pleasures, and sufferings did you personally undergo before you revealed the Creator?

Answer: I went through a lot of things. You will too. It is the same for everyone.

Question: Did you feel emptiness or depression?

Answer: How can they not be felt if these are necessary states even before receiving any knowledge? You have to feel that you lack this knowledge, do not understand something, and are in a confused state.

It is the same with spiritual attainment. Before you reveal something spiritual, you must feel like you do not understand anything, you are in some kind of prostration. It seems to you that you will never achieve what you desire and that all your studies are absolutely useless, aimless, and stupid. You start cursing both yourself and me, all of us.

Then this state changes. A new day comes, a new light, and everything manifests in a new way, only at a higher level.

Each time darkness and light rotate, night and day, until you accumulate enough impressions that turn into a constant sensation—knowledge.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 12/23/18

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Question: How do you see the future development of the world 15 years from now? What will come to the forefront? What is Israel’s role in it?

Answer: The desirable path of development is the awareness of the Israeli people, together with our groups in the world, and the so-called progressive humanity that the most important thing is to unite and to show the world an example of unity.

When we manage to unite with each other at least a little bit, then the upper light will pass through us and it will be felt at all levels of humanity. People will feel that real life and the possibility of progressing to the next stage of development, exiting to a new level of existence, is in unity.

Being in this corporeal world, we will at the same time begin to penetrate into higher matter, into higher existence, into those areas where not our brain operates, but the commands that control it.

I hope very much that we will begin to feel this in the coming years. It is at our doorstep, but it depends on us how much we will be ready to adapt this knowledge and sensations.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 1/13/19

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New Life 56 – Mutual Guarantee As A Shield
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Nitzah Mazoz

Mutual guarantee is a powerful force that can correct all defects and remove all obstacles. The point of connection between us is not a psychological or physical shield, but is actually a special, internal force that we discover, a weapon with which we can defeat any threat. Mutual guarantee balances us so that we agree with society, even if we personally receive less. Let’s speak about our problems and rise above them through mutual guarantee or connection, like brothers in one family.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 56 – Mutual Guarantee As A Shield,” 8/12/12

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